Don Yenko grew up in his family’s Chevrolet dealership. In 1957, he set up a performance shop at the dealership for adding a bit more punch to Chevy cars. The shop sold performance parts to customers, ...

The Yenko-badged Nova 427 sits at the sharp edge of Chevrolet muscle history, a compact coupe that quietly carried one of the wildest big blocks of its era. Built in tiny numbers and traded today at ...

There’s rare, and then there’s Yenko rare. For 1969, just 38 Novas were transformed under Chevrolet dealer Don Yenko’s watchful eye, each one a hand-built weapon designed to do one thing: humiliate ...

In 1929, a fellow named Frank Yenko opened a Durant dealership. When the Durant company went bankrupt in 1934, Yenko opened a Chevrolet dealership. About three decades later, Frank's son, Don Yenko, ...

The groundbreaking Chevrolet Yenko muscle cars designed by Don Yenko have solidified their place in automotive history as true American legends. Yenko modified Camaros, Chevelles, and Novas during the ...

Don Yenko was a young, struggling jazz pianist trying to break into the NYC jazz scene before coming to the realization that the life of a musician would be a hard one. After the prodigal son returned ...

If you're into muscle cars that once ruled the roads a half century ago, but haven't heard of the 1969 Chevy Yenko Nova S/C, you'd be forgiven. This was a bit of a unicorn in the year of the moon ...

Will bought the rare Yenko Nova from a big-name dealership as the ultimate gift for his 50th birthday. They told him it was perfect and ready to go. In fact, it was ready to fall apart. Which it did.